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ock Island Daief Argus.
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,L. XXXII NO. 244
ROCK ISLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1S91.
Singl Copies KCrat
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We have assumed the position as "Leaders," and not even the Lion turned loose
from his den would make us flinch an inch from that position.
THE GIANTS TAKE A TUMBLE.
Boston Goes to Second Place in th
Leslie Contest.
Chicago, Aug 3. After some weeks ol
see -sawing between the Xew York and
Chicago League base balL clubs last week
closed wjth "your uncle . Anse" looking
more like a winner than be lias for lo thes
many -days, while Gotham's pride, thi
abrogation which numbers among its
members the terrible Rusie and "Carmen1
cita" Ewing, has dropped to third place,
Boston's experts stepping blithely up tc
do battle with the "colts." A "lead of
thirty-nine points over the beaneaters anJ
forty-niueover the New Yorkers makes th
Chicago crank tread on air, and in his
mind he sees the pennant already flying
from the pole in the west side ball park.
But there's more to follow. The standing
of the different aggregations is given below:
Just to have a little fun and make things hum, we will start the ball with a
SUIT
SALE
Fvp
K&B CSV if J
-J will throw in enough $10.00 and $12.00 suits to make competitors of the tri-cities exclaim and stare in amazement and ask
'0, where did you get that suit?" Of THE LONDON, of course, the onlv Bargain House of the tri-cities.
I; you intend paying $10.00 or $12.00 for a suit, may be we can suit you for $.00. 'Come and see. This may seem redicu
:s, but you try it and if you are not too fastidious and don't want the earth with a fence around it
We will Suit You for Five Dollars.
We intend selling every dollar's worth of our Summer Clothing this season.
They Must Go!
Our Neglige Shirts Must Go!
Our Underwear Must Go!
Our Straw; Hats Must Go!
Our large stock of Children's clothing will go, for prices cut in half will make them go. If you are wise, you will take advan
$ oi this great clearing sale.
We Must have the Room for our FALL and WINTER Stock.
ri-r;Stce2d brj"ing a 5tock of goods this fall to Rock Island that you will talk about in your sleep, and make the- Clothiers of
- Li,c uigiuiiidre an next winter. 11 you looKior Bargains in an departments tnis montn you 11 not De Oisapponted at
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New York ... :!
Cleveland. .
Philadelphia -w 43;
Brooklyn
Cincinnati 4f
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575 jSt. Louis ...
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Minneapolis
Lincoln
ioux City. .
Kansas City.
Denver
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Company.
The People's Protectors and Money Savers, Rock Island, His.
What the Score Book Show.
Scores made by the leading base ball
combinations Saturday and Sunday were
as follows Leaeue: At New York Brook
lyn. 9: New York. 6. At Philadelphia
Philadelphia. 0; Boston. L At Pittsburg
Pittsburg. T; Cleveland, 3. At Cincin
nati Chicago, 7: Cincinnati, 4.
Association: At Columbus Columbus,
7;. Baltimore, 2. At Cincinnati Cincin
nati. 6: Washington, 2. At St. Louis
St. Louis. 3: Boston. 7. At Louisville
Athletic. 3: Louisville, 2. (Sunday) At
Louisville Athletic, 8; IxmisviUe, 5, At
St. Loui Boston, 5; St. Louis. S. At
Columbus Baltimore. 3; Columbus, a.
At Cincinnati Washington, 5; Cincin
nati. 15.
Western: At Dulutli Omaha, 10; Du
luth4. At Minneapolis Denver, 7;" Min
neapolis. 6. At Milwaukee Lincoln. 1;
Milwaukee, 5. (Sunday) At - Duluth
Omaha, 1: Duluth, 7. (Second game)
Omaha, C; D-iluth, 10. At Minneapolis
Denver, 13: Minneapolis. 3. At Milwau
keeLincoln, 2: Milwaukee, 1. At Sioux
City Kansas City, 5: Sioux City, 3.
Jliinois-Iowa: At Cedar Kapids Joliet,
4; Cedar Kapids, 5. At Quincy Rock
ford, 4; Quincy, 7.
ABBREVIATED TELfiSRAMS.
It is charged that the jury that tried
Editor Eiliott at Columbus, O., for the
murder of Osborn. had at least one bribed
juror oil frr, nnA evident- is presented of an .
attempt to brilw another. The alleged
bribery was iu Elliott's behalf.
The jfb printers, prro. imi otters
engaged in that branch of business at
Omaha, have struck to enforce the eight
hour law passed by the recent lecislature.
The men in the Omaha and Grant Smelt
ing works have also struck for the same
purpose.
The Piatt Deutschverein is holding a
convention at Denver.
The first Bessemer steel produced in
Maryland wos blown at Sparrow Poiut by
the Maryland Steel company Saturday.
The s-wiss are joyfully celebrating the
Cioth ani:ive.-sary cf :he establishment of
their republic.
Professor Max Schuller. of the Berlin
university, has a new cure for consump
tion which he says has cured seventy out
of K cases and improved sixteen. The
remedy is the active principle of creosote,
or "guaicol."
The "holy coat of Trier," a garment al
leged to have been worn by the Savior, is
to be put on exhibition at" Trier cn Aug.
15. It is supposed to have miraculous
properties.
An Alliance member of the school board
of Oakland, Kan., objected to hoisting the
national ensign over the school house and
his fellows voted with bim.
The Shawnee county i Kas.) Democrats
have entered into a fusion with the Alli
ance to capture the loaves and fishes in
that county on an equal "divvy."
Employes of Bliss & Van Anken's mill,
at Saginaw. Mich., caught Jerry Findley,
a slab sawyer, stealing another man's din
ner, and gave him a coat of pitch and
mud.
Frank Ralinski. 12 years old, pulled
Paul Laluski. aged 6, into the river at St.
Paul, and held him under water until be
was drowned, bo it is charged by Paul's
little brother. Frank denies the crime.
George H. Myers, judge of the Tenth
judicial circuit of Wisconsin, died at Ap
pleton Saturday, at the age of 67, from the
effects of the grip.
It is stated that Frank Collier, tne Chi
cago lawyer who was sent to the insane
asylum, is getting better, and hopes are
entertained of his entire recovery.
The total fatalities consequent upon the
railway disaster at St. Mande, France,
were forty-three. Eighty were to jured.
The supreme court of Michigan has de
cided a case in which the point was a hus
band's right to a part of what the wife
earns. The point was decided tffiaii
tively. Judge Hammond, of the United States
district court at Memphis, 4ias decided in
a case in which Seventh.Day Adreniiets
were the defendants that it ie imlnmil in
this country to work 00 Sunday. Tba
case will be appealed.
All Gotkim Papers To Be Indicted.
New York, Aug. 8. District Attorney
Nicoll Saturday decided to hare indicted
all the New Y'ork newspapers that pub
lished accounts of the eiectrio executions
at Sing Sing on July 6. The evidence in
the hands of the district attorney will be
presented to the grand jury on to-day.
Bosslaa Jews Coating; This War.
CHambcrg, Aug. 8. Fire thousand four
hundred Russian Jews left this city the
past week, most of them intending to go
ultimately to the United States.
K. E. Parmenter, attorney at ' tow,"
Makes collections, loans money ana will
attend to aj legal buiien intrusted to
him. Office, poatoffice block. Rock Iil
MuLDia. dwlj-
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